Get drunk, pass out in front of 30 kids, collect $100,000/year and a lifetime pension. God bless the teachers unions. Or to be more precise, the New York teachers unions. I don't want to paint a broad brush.
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The whole process which one must go through to become a public school teacher in NYC is ridiculous. Close-to-useless Master's degrees in "Education", meaningless 200-hour training courses to obtain "certification", and on and on.
The end result (and this is true outside of NYC as well) is that private school teachers, a good percentage of whom don't have "education" degrees nor "certification", are generally better teachers than their public school counterparts.
When you have to run this meaningless "gauntlet" to obtain a teaching job, you wind up with teachers who are more skilled at bureaucratic "hoop-jumping" than actual teaching.
No, LET'S paint them all with the same brush, because teacher unions are all the same.
In LA, they FINALLY fired a teacher found guilty of sexual harassment SEVEN years after being paid to do nothing.
http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-me-teachers-kim14-2009jul14,0,2795135.story
Kim will probably successfully file for disability even if he is fired.
There was a story a month or two ago that talked about the number of teachers who were not allowed into class rooms because of being convicted sex offenders...NY had them in a building just sitting around reading drawing full compensation...they could not fire them and they could not put them to work...unions gotta love them.
Many urban school systems spend, at least, $15-20k/year/student....and have half or more not graduate.
Look for the Union label!
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